The Seduction of Brazil: The Americanization of Brazil During World War II (Llilas Translations from Latin America Series)

by Antonio Pedro Tota (Author)

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  Paperback
  2010

  $33.38

  A study of how the Roosevelt administration used mass media, including films by such luminaries as John Ford, Walt Disney, and Orson Wells, to promote the American way of life to Brazilians and how Brazilians actively interpreted, negotiated, and reconfigured this effort a cultural seduction.